Hello Students!  Please take advantage of this year's AP Summer Bridge Workshops.  Students going into an AP Course in the 2017-18 school year should register for AP Summer Bridge.  These workshops are designed to support your academic success as you transition into a more challenging, college level class.

This year’s AP Summer Bridge program offers several different, subject specific workshops designed to provide all students with skills necessary to be more successful in these specific AP courses.  Below is a list of workshops that will be offered.  Plan on attending workshops for the AP courses you will be taking when classes begin.  Please choose all of the workshops that you will be attending.  Note: not all AP courses will be offering a workshop.

Summer Bridge will be from 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM daily beginning on Monday, August 7th and ending on Friday, August 11th.  You will receive confirmation and more specific information regarding your AP Bridge schedule via personal e-mail or by phone over the summer; therefore, please provide email addresses that you and your parent/guardian check often.  

Please do not expect to receive reminders through School Loop because it may not be available over the summer.  On the first day of bridge, plan to meet under the 900 building to receive your schedule of AP Summer Bridge Workshops.  

Finally, because we do not have food service in the summer, students will be responsible for their own food and drink to have during a break.

Monday morning and afternoon sessions are the same.
Friday sessions are different from Monday and from each other (morning and afternoon)

This workshop focuses on preparing students to design, implement, and analyze their own experiments.  Students will learn the basics of how to design an experiment to help them as they create about 8 of their own experiments during the AP Biology course.  Students who have attended this workshop in the past have said it’s extremely helpful and eased their minds coming into the year.  Please only attend one “Designing Your Own Experiment” workshop.  Other workshops that are offered focus on reviewing key content covered in regular biology to better prepare students during the course of the year as we dig deeper and expand on these topics.

This is a 2 day workshop. You need only attend one Day 1 and one Day 2 because each workshop will repeat.

DAY 1:
A. Introduction
• Textbook introduction
• On line resources/registration to Connect ED
B. Explanation of “Big Ideas”
C. Introductory Lab
• Determination of Concentration of a Solution of copper (II) sulfate.
• Making solutions
• Use of Spectrophotometer
• Beer’s Law
       4. Lab write-ups in AP Chemistry
DAY 2:
A. Inquiry Lab Development
• Variable/Constants
• Data collection and processing
• Reporting Data/Error Analysis
B. Lab - Percent Composition of NaHCO3 in vinegar

The computer science workshop will highlight programs that will be used during the year.  You'll get a head start understanding how to navigate around in them so that you are ready to go when we begin using them.  Basic topics and summaries of units will also be discussed.  Note: this workshop is for Principles and CS-A.

In this workshop, we will review ideas found in the text, How to Read Like a Professor.  In addition, we will go over allusions commonly found in literature as well as an overview of what is expected in the class.

This is a 2 day workshop.  One day focuses on Macro Economics and the other focuses on Government. You need only attend one Macro Economics day and one Government day.

Day 1: Basic math skills for AP Macro Economics (basic fractions/decimals, getting a % of a number), basic economic terminology, study tips/resources. A broad overview of the topics covered will also be included.

Day 2: Writing for AP US Gov, textbook reading strategies and note-taking, study tips/resources, political ideology and parties (take a survey to find your own!).  A broad overview of the topics covered will also be included.

 During this 3-day workshop we will:

·         Review mathematical concepts.
·         Describe physical terms and concepts
·         Define steps of laboratory experiments
·         Discuss motion in one dimension

It is strongly suggested to check out your textbook as soon as possible and review chapters one and two of the course.

Each workshop will be different. Look forward to the following topics:
-->  Use SHMOOP to take a practice exam that will assess your incoming abilities.  This will help determine which language abilities are your strongest which ones you need to improve upon.
-->  Look at the 6 themes that make up the class and the May exam.
-->  Review the 7 different parts of the Spanish Language exam.
-->  Review Critical Reading , Speaking in the target language, Listening to authentic audio files & taking efficient notes, Writing Formal & Informal text

This workshop will give you a leg up on the extensive AP Spanish Literature reading list.  You will be given insight about the themes and learn to make connections between the texts and historical periods. We will explore art, film and music relevant to the literature and other disciplines.    

You will get a preview of the main topics you will be learning in AP Statistics.  Statistics is different than other math classes, so this will give you a little foundation and preparation for the year ahead.

This workshop will offer you the fundamentals of study skills, note taking, reading and writing that will help you succeed in any AP course.